Dr Karen Stead-Dexter PhD, MSc, BSc Hons, Dip
Animal & Nature Connection Teacher & Practitioner
Helping You
Dr Karen helps people improve their mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing, in a lasting way, by inspiring deeper relationships with the natural world.
Blending science and indigenous knowledge with human emotional experience, she helps you find opportunities to make an instinctive connection with our world, planet earth, in a stress-free way that can be truly uplifting and transformative.
Her methods have been honed over 30 years, and have helped people from all walks of life, including those with trauma, PTSD, autism, anxiety and chronic illness.
Her expertise is available to you in Specialist 1-to-1 Therapy or by signing up to her Signature 3-month Seasonal Well-Being Programme.
Well-Being Programme
Throughout the year, Dr Karen’s Well-Being Programme helps you to enjoy, understand and benefit from working in synchronicity with nature’s cycles. This small group programme is uniquely formulated for each season, lasts 12 weeks each time, and is guided personally by Dr Karen, with online talks and webinars, nature-based activities, meditations and individual consultations.
CURRENT PROGRAMME:
Spring
Started Monday 3rd March 2025
It's been brilliant, exciting and enlightening and very, very useful. Enchanting, empowering, revealing and fun! (JM)
The Essence really opened me up to the deeper connection and I noticed clients and family have been impacted by the ripple effect also. (JT)
Accredited Courses
Dr Karen is an Accredited Executive Training Provider with IPHM, International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine, the largest leading independent professional accreditation board worldwide for holistic, complementary and alternative therapies.
Looking for specialist courses in Nature Connection as Therapy?
Are you, or do you aspire to be, a practitioner working with the profound energy of nature, animals and this earth??
Whatever your experience or qualifications, you will find Dr Karen’s teaching inspiring, full of knowledge and different methods for deep connection with Nature. Courses are always small groups, in person, in Somerset, UK, and you are advised to book well in advance.
1-to-1 Specialist Help
Clients often come to Dr Karen after trying medication and talking therapies that have provided some relief but have failed to help them move forward.
Dr Karen’s therapy sessions can be profound, and also challenging, but all take place outside in nature or with animals, using your senses, without the stress of sitting in a closed room trying to find words to explain how you feel.
If you are struggling with your mental health or chronic illness, go to the Therapy page, and if you think it might be right for you, book a free phone consultation.
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